Modular Intro

Description

TL;DR 

This mod mainly does 3 things:

- Turns q000 questphase (intro of the prologue) into sub-phases flowing into each other to allow more fine-grained changes of the intro to a new game (between starting the life path mission until completing or skipping the training shard/VR tutorial given by Jackie in the car before  The Rescue) 

- Inserts an additional placeholder sub-quest between the life path mission and the half-year montage to allow mods like Live The Montage and Prolonged Prologue to insert their contents without importing the whole q000 and awkwardly hack one of the messy nodes from it

- Adds an option in mod settings to skip the life path mission. This one was added as testing for the 2 mentioned mods quickly become very tedious, as I had to replay the intro mission for all life paths a billion times. Even using the skip everything mod at maximum speed made it painful. I also created New Game Shortcuts from that need to test things faster. If you combine skipping the intro mission and skipping the character creation process, life gets easier for testing

This mod can be completely turned off, with a fallback on the vanilla q000 quest phase, via an option in mod settings. 

This allows modders to work on q000 without the need to import it in your mods anymore. It only touches one vanilla questphase: the prologue.questphase, which calls all the prologue questphases, including q000; it just adds a check on the global flag to route to either this mod's contents or vanilla q000.

Fresh Start optional file

The optional "Modular Fresh Start" file can be used long with this mod. It applies the principles described above, and overrides a couple of files from the modularized intro to wrap Fresh Start's questphases.

This give the possibility to use Fresh Start with other mods changing q000, with the added bonus that Modular Intro allows skiping the life path missions - for the impatient or testing, this is a gain of time.

If you combine it with my Live The Montage mod, it applies life path bonuses like for the vanilla ones: since you're a few weeks after the end of the life path mission, you get to keep all the money that Misty gave you.

The (very) long story

This mod was born from my work on Live The Montage and Prolonged Prologue. These (and a few others, even if there aren't that many) need to hack/plug into the early stage of prologue quest from the vanilla files. 

The prologue starts with the